Aside from the blood trail the question remains , is it reallynessary to shoot through ?
Apparently you don't put anywhere's near the importance on that blood trail and exit hole that i do....
As for your Hornandy bullet doing it also, will the Hornandyalso make a hole like that through a big bull moose on a quartering shot??? I've done it with the same load/bullet combo on numerous big game animials, in fact i've lost count on how many times it's worked for me...
DM